Daniel Johnston - Live and Let Die
Hearing the Spiritualized version of “True love will find you in the end” and seeing the recent pictures on pitchfork put me into a Daniel Johnston mood. (It doesn’t take much)
While this track is just Daniel with his Guitar, I suspect that there are actually multiple singers ;) This performance, even after dozens of listens, gives the impression of being totally off the cuff and captures Daniel in the confusing whirlwind of his own imagination.
I am posting this on covers friday, but I think its a close call as to whether its a cover at all. Its more like when folk musicians take old folk songs and repurpose them for themselves. Why don’t people do that anymore? (Other than sampling, but that’s different.) Well, regardless of the reasons, Daniel does it here, and it kills.
